Coming off a draw with Hasim Rahman for the WBC Heavyweight Championship, James Toney looks to get back in line for a title shot by taking on the hard-hitting Samuel Peter. Toney boxes well for most of the fight, but Peter has him discombobulated with some heavy right hands in a few tense moments in the first half of the fight. Peter is later deducted a point for clapping his gloves around Toney's ears. In the end, two of the three judges favor Peter's power over Toney's slick boxing as Toney loses a controversial split decision.

I love James Toney, even wearing a suit of cheeseburger-blubber he remained as slippery as the grease of his favourite Burger King. A morbidly obese former-middleweight peppering sharp counters into the face of a legitimate heavyweight is a joyous sight. For giving said heavyweight a very tough and close fight, Toney does not get enough credit for his performance far above his natural weight class; he is the closest thing we have to a modern day Sam Langford.

Toney was robbed on the scorecards. It was a very close fight, and distressingly the judges' scorecards failed to reflect that.